Opinion

Now that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed the 2013-15 biennial budget and he's poised to rocket into re-election mode for 2014, he and his advisers will need to come up with theme music for the coming campaign. They could do no better than Mel Brooks' "The French Mistake," a catchy melody from the climactic scene of the 1974 comedy "Blazing Saddles."

Why "The French Mistake"? Ask any French economist or outside observer of the increasingly ramshackle French economy. After two and a half years in office, Gov. Malloy is copying the failing French model as vigorously as a hack painter endeavoring to forge the works of Toulouse Lautrec.

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